SAN BERNARDINO – Andy Crowley pretty much did it all for San Gorgonio in the championship game of the Inland Empire Baseball Classic on Wednesday. The senior outfielder/pitcher had three hits, a triple, three RBIs, scored three runs, stole two bases, pitched two innings of relief and actually broke an aluminum bat.

It was the last achievement that had Crowley feeling especially good – well, that and the 16-2 beating the Spartans gave Moreno Valley Vista del Lago to win the tournament title.

The Spartans (11-2) pounded out 16 hits against the Ravens (8-5) to provide revenge for last year, when Vista del Lago won the title on San Gorgonio’s home field. The broken bat, a result of Crowley jamming Ravens right fielder Trent Hedlund in the sixth inning, provided a perfect ending to a great day for Crowley and San Gorgonio.

“I was pretty proud of that,” Crowley said. “I’ve never done that to anyone with an aluminum bat and quite frankly, it’s pretty cool. We wanted to come out here and get them back for last year.”

The Spartans scored at least four runs in three separate innings. One of those was the first, which saw San Gorgonio employ some unconventional baserunning to fluster the Ravens.

With the bases loaded and two out, San Gorgonio pitcher Adam Quintana intentionally got in a rundown between second and third. Quintana and Crowley, who was standing on third, alternated in getting into rundowns, stood on third base together on two occasions and avoided a tag long enough to force a Vista del Lago error. Crowley ran home on a dropped ball by Ravens shortstop Josh Garcia for San Gorgonio’s first run.

“We practice all sorts of gadget two-out baserunning plays all the time,” coach Bill Eatinger said. “You only run them with two outs and it’s a gamble. It’s like a fake punt in football. You are a genius if it works and an idiot if it doesn’t.”

The play put Vista del Lago on tilt as Robert Hook walked Carlos Alamilla to reload the bases for San Gorgonio shortstop Junior Ureno, who cleared them with a double to left-center that put the Spartans up 4-0.

“That was huge,” Crowley said. “Getting up big like that early gave everyone confidence. We knew that we were going to be tough to stop.”

Ureno’s double was one of four multiple-RBI extra-base hits by the Spartans. Catcher Luke Staples added a two-run double in the third to make it 7-0, first baseman Ricky Elias had a two-run double to highlight a four-run fifth inning and Caleb Cacho (double) and Crowley (triple) each had two-run hits in a five-run sixth.

“It’s funny, because we haven’t been doing that the whole season,” Eatinger said. “Today we just played a great game, because that’s not a team that loses 16-2. It was one of those things that just snowballed.”

Quintana got the win by pitching five-plus innings and giving up only two runs. Quintana pitched well for the most part but got help from fellow senior Crowley when he needed it most.

Vista del Lago, down 7-1 in the top of the fifth, took advantage of uncharacteristic wildness by Quintana – who pitched the first four innings without giving up a walk – and loaded the bases on two walks and a hit-by-pitch to set up cleanup hitter Alfonso Vargas with two outs.

Vargas got a hold of a Quintana fastball and drove it to deep center. But Crowley, despite playing somewhat shallow, ran the ball down to preserve the lead, which San Gorgonio extended with four runs in the bottom of the inning.

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